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This part 3. The previous posts make it pretty clearly that he did the "polite no, thank you." before.

And he'll have to do it again, since Google (and other companies) clearly does not maintain a blacklist of the sort he wants them to.

It's the part where he gets all Wrath of Khan about it that is a little entertaining.

> ... does not maintain a blacklist of the sort he wants them to.

I wonder why... Is the potential for one person changing their mind worth the negativity? I've also been contacted repeatedly by Google's recruiters, even though I live nowhere near a Google campus, and have no desire to move back to that area.

Technical solutions not always being practical in meat space and all that, but seems like a backoff like we would implement against an API which isn't responding would not be a terrible idea here.

I'm sure they use some kind of CRM to keep track of all their candidates, they could just mark them "do not contact"

Must have since they knew not to recruit people working for certain other companies.

Discounting the motivations behind recruiter's cold calls for a moment; people do change. Someone who felt comfortable telling Google to haul off one year might feel different one or four years down the line. Making the assumption that they didn't burn bridges, re-contacting them a respectable amount of time later may result in a different outcome.

If I change my mind, I will contact them. Repeatedly hitting me up with impersonal contacts I don't want is not going to do it. In fact, it will make me lessl likely to change my mind.

Even if they maintained a blacklist, in this case, it was 5 years since they last contacted him according to this site.

Blame the 100's of recruiters working for google on contract and a internal CRM that likely doesnt work very well. Add in the idea that everyone is looking around eventually and you have people reaching out to you weekly about things you already said no to in the past.

> Is the potential for one person changing their mind worth the negativity?

I didn't read this and come away feeling any more negative about google.

They certainly do maintain such a blacklist.

Sounds like "before" was five years ago.

I'm curious to read parts 1 & 2, wish there were clear links to them in "Part 3".

Part one is linked, though not clearly, from the article.[0]

Checking the category under which this was posted, Rants, gets you to number two in a single page where a good old Mark I eyeball grep is enough to get you there with some brief scrolling.[1]

(I was curious, too.)

[0] https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2011/12/13/google-f...

[1] https://asylum.madhouse-project.org/blog/2012/08/21/recruitm...

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